Part I - The Far East:- Sketching Layers in Japan: Mineral Wealth, Geo-bodies and Imperial Territory:- Putting America's First Empire on the Map: American Early Efforts to Map the Philippine Islands:- The Exploration and Survey of the Outlying Islands of the Dutch East Indies:- A View from Inside: Chinese Mapping of the World Against the Backdrop of Colonial Experience:- Part II - The Middle East and India:- French Cartographic Services in the Levant: Putting Syria and Lebanon on the Map of the Empire:- Surveying Empires: Archaeologies of Colonial Cartography and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India:- War Cartography in the Survey of India, 1920–1946:- Part III - Mapping the World:- Red Star to Red Lion: The Soviet Military Mapping of Oxford:- Maps Against Imperialism: Frank Horrabin and Alexander Radó's Atlases in the Interwar Period:- Empire as Spectacle: Harmsworth'sAtlas of the World and Pictorial Gazetteer with an Atlas of the Great War:- Part IV - Mapping Boundaries:- Mapping Changes in Ottoman-Austrian Borders during the Eighteenth Century:- Lines on the Map: International Boundaries:- Part V - Toponyms:- German Names in the Kilimanjaro Region:- The French Map of Beirut (1936):- Part VI - Mapmakers:- Military or Missionary Map? The First Topographic Map of Northern New Spain (1725–1729):- ‘Dead on Arrival’: The Unused Cartographic Legacy of Carl Friedrich Reimer:- Head-hunters, Cannibals and Pirates: Surveying in the 1960s.
Alexander James Kent is Reader in Cartography and
Geographic Information Science at Canterbury Christ Church
University (UK), where he lectures on cartographic history and
design, GIS, remote sensing and on European and political
geography. His research explores the relationship between maps and
society, particularly the intercultural aspects of topographic
mapping and the aesthetics of cartography. Alex is also the Editor
of The Cartographic Journal, the Immediate Past President of
the British Cartographic Society, the Chair of the ICA Commission
on Topographic Mapping, and the Chair of the ICA World Cartographic
Forum.
Soetkin Vervust is a postdoctoral research fellow
at the VUB – Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and
Newcastle University (UK). Her research interests lie in eighteenth
and nineteenth century military cartography, the use of digital
techniques for the study of old maps, and their applicability to
historical geography and landscape archaeology. She has served as
Executive Secretary of the ICA Commission on the History of
Cartography since 2015.
Imre Josef Demhardt is interested in post-enlightenment
cartography, colonialism and regional studies, with a focus on
Central Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. In addition
to having published numerous articles and several books on these
subjects, he is involved as co-editor of Vol. 5 (Nineteenth
Century) in the encyclopedic project on the History of
Cartography. He holds the Garrett Chair in the History of
Cartography at the University of Texas at Arlington and currently
serves as Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of
Cartography.
Nick Millea has been Map Librarian at the Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford, since 1992. He served as
Bibliographer for Imago Mundi (2005–10 and 2012–15) and is
a founding member and co-convenor of The Oxford Seminars in
Cartography (TOSCA). Most recently, he has co-curated
the Talking Maps exhibit at the Bodleian Library and has
written the exhibit’s complementary books: Talking
Maps and Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell.
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